The Madison Square Boys and Girls Club of Far Rockaway Academy is journeying to Mars with some help from the American Museum of Natural History and NASA. Beginning this month, the children will learn about Astrobiology, space exploration and planets. More...

The Coalition for Far Rockaway in cooperation with Queens Legal Services Corporation will be
hosting a leadership seminar on "Domestic Violence and Orders of Protection" on Wednesday, May 12, between 3 p.m. More...

Geoff Rawling, President of the Rockaway Artists Alliance, began bringing new life to the Whalemena last fall with help from an NYC Parks Foundation grant and donations of stained glass, tile and pottery. More...

Two Rockaway teenagers, who were accused of killing a young father during an attempted mugging at the Beach 36 Street Subway stop in November, pled not guilty to charges of murder, robbery, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal posses More...

PS 105 in Edgemere held its annual Read-Aloud Day on April 22. Guest readers were invited to the school to read to classes of young students. Pictured, City Councilman Joe Addabbo reads to a fourth grade class. More...

P.S. 114 first grade student Nikki B., made an amazing discovery on Saturday, March 6. by finding balloon #57. The balloon, which was set loose by students from the Kenwood School in Kearney, Nebraska, was released as part of a plan to honor Dr. More...

State senator Malcolm A. Smith has announced that Neighborhood Housing Service (NHS) of Jamaica is ready to implement its Closing Costs Assistance Grant Programs with New York State HOME funds. More...

The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning will host a new exhibition entitled "Losing Ground: The Rapidly-Changing Ecology of Jamaica Bay, featuring the work of Brandon Ballengee beginning with a reception on May 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. More...

"How are you today?": a question that is often asked and is seemingly innocuous. Those in the health care field ask this all day long; to their patients, family members, coworkers, and friends. More...

Muriel Stemmann says thas she always considered herself lucky that she lives in Broad Channel, what she considered a safe town. She lives in the same house that her father, Bill and his two brothers, Arthur and Charles, built in 1900 More...

Michael Vaughn of Inwood has been named a United States Achievement Academy National Award winner. He is the son of Kathleen and Michael Vaughn and the grandson of Kay Casey of Rockaway Park and Kay Vaughn of Lynbrook. More...

Students at M.S. 180 visited the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem recently. Billy Mitchell, tour guide for the trip and master of ceremony during Wednesday night Amateur Night, showed the students how performers strut their stuff on stage. More...

Ann Williams, Ph.D., a long time resident of Rockaway Point, will be honored by the Kennedy Child Study Center at its Annual Spring Benefit at Tavern on the Green on May 20, for her forty years of dedicated service to mentally retarded/developmentall More...